LIKE the well-loved and charismatic Alberto Pamintuan who was vice mayor and an undefeated in all his political outings, observers were concluding that his son Edgardo who tallied big votes in the vice mayoral race will achieve further heights.

IT WAS in the 1980 mayoral elections when the politician son of former Angeles town Mayor Manuel "Putot" Abad Santos was running full speed. Party less and penniless yet he was able to show his hidden political strength.

IT IS high-time that our political discourse shifts from pre-occupation on stereotypes to a more sensible and productive level where it is clearly understood by ordinary citizens as genuinely attuned to the attainment of a progressive, peaceful an